ABSTRACT
Her earliest publications were stories contributed to Youth's Magazine under the pen name "Orris." A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings (1850) drew praise from both Tennyson and Fitzgerald. With the publication of Poems (1863), which went through thirty editions during her lifetime, Ingelow was celebrated as one of the major lyric poets of the period. Her ballads and lyrics, strongly influenced by Wordsworth and Tennyson, combine keen appreciation for nature, conventional religiosity, and a sentimental longing for the Lincolnshire of her childhood.
